billd766

What a load of cobblers you write. Is this the best excuse that you can come up with? Whataboutery? Your experiences are not the yard stick either. For the majority of the posters who have had the home visits, there are no problems. Immigration call before they come and spend 20 or 30 minutes confirming your details and then go away again, one time in 4 years. That works out for me, about 9 minutes of my life per year. Perhaps you have something to hide as you seem to protest too much. Why don't you file an official complaint with the head office of Immigration, and complain bitterly, as you do here about the invasion of your personal life in Thailand? Then let us all know the results.

Me too. ????

Please don't feed the troll. Don't respond to any of his posts and even stick him on your ignore list.

You are NOT made to view it at all. You can look at the title of the thread BEFORE you open it, and if you don't think you want to read it, just skip the thread. The choice is YOURS and yours alone to open the thread or not.

I will be rich as soon as I or SWMBO win the lottery.

It doesn't bother me in the slightest. I have only had one visit in 4 years, but if they want to come they will call my wife and make an appointment. We will offer them coffee or cold water, do what they ask and then they will go away happy and leave us alone until the next time. It takes about 20 or 30 minutes a visit and I suspect that they are sent the order from the regional office/head office and they simply have a quota to fill.

It depends on where you live and if the IO is a regional office. I live in Kamphaeng Phet province which comes under region 5 at Chiang Mai. Once my marriage extension is accepted it generally takes 30 days for the regional office to approve it. In your case it should be approved on 7 December.

I have a Ford Ranger double cab which was 21 years old yesterday and when I bought it in 2001 diesel was less than 10 baht a litre.

He probably has 3 houses to pass on to his wife for her future. That is why I would rule his wife out.

Sharpen your teeth

And people like him are running/ruining Thailand.

AFAIK they are shareholders in a PUBLIC LIMITED company which was founded on 08 August 1989. Further to that, again AFAIK shareholders do NOT take any active part in running any company in Thailand or elsewhere for that matter. What shareholders do is buy shares in a company in the belief that the company will make a profit, and that all the shareholders will gain investment on the profits made which I think is called a dividend. The only wat I know for a shareholder to take an active part in any business is if they are elected an AGM. IMHO, there is an election coming fairly soon in Thailand, and the ministry of dirty tricks has been re-activated to ensure that the PTP and the Shinawatra clan do not win a majority of seats and thus form a government, even a coalition government. Scw the party list has gone back to 100 from 150 the minnow parties need 350,000 or 375,000 votes per MP elected just to gain a party list seat. Again IMHO there will be a lot more dirty tricks in the pipeline.

Actually it did require a lot of boots on the ground as did the petrol tanker drivers strike. However that was in the past when the Army, Navy and RAF had a lot more men and women power. Nowadays the military are stretch more tightly as government have cut back deeply, that there are hardly enough to go around for the current commitments without calling up the reserves. No one political party is to blame, but the Tories have been in power longer.

There are none so blind as those who do not want to see.

What a load of <deleted> rubbish. You claim it, now back it up with links and facts.

No thank you. The route 12 was bad enough. I gave up biking about 3 years ago when I realised that if I dropped my Honda Phantom I could never pick it up on my own. I also realised that if I was underneath it I was buggered unless someone came to help me.

I arrived back in Thailand in May of 2009 and have never left since.

Have you ever heard of passport control where Immigration stamp and record your exit and entry?

Not really. I can vaguely remember when Pontius was a trainee pilot.

No apology necessary. If I Remember Correctly I get caught out sometimes and I usually do a copy and paste to a Google search and most times I find the answer, usually under urban slang.

Some bar steward got me and I am now in Facebook jail while the <deleted> is still spamming my Faceache account. To add insult to injury, Faceache will not accept my mobile number as "it is already in use".

IIRC it is +/- 7 days when reporting in person, but online or by post I have no idea. I always do mine in person a couple of days later each time so that the 4th one falls in line with my extension.

You have a nasty suspicious mind. Why would I wonder if the dealer wanted cash? If that is how they wanted the deal, that was fine by me. They were one of the main dealers on Sukhumvit soi 62/1 but moved a few years ago. quote "In France the largest legal cash transaction between any business and a resident is 1000 Euros, and it might be so elsewhere in EU, for good reasons." But we are not in France or even the EU so any comparison is superfluous. This Thailand where cash is king especially out of the cities and it is nothing to Thais in the bank drawing 500,000 or a million thb in cash. Nobody is suspicious about that at all.

I am not suspicious of the local IO at all. Like the majority of government departments worldwide, they don't make the rules themselves but are operating under the rules laid down for them by the various governments. They do have the latitude to ask for more information, IF they believe it is necessary, and it is rarely used unless they are not happy with the application laid out for them. It is not often that they abuse their own rules even if they do have a bad day, and how they react depends on the applicant. If he is stroppy, belligerent, untidy, argumentative or simply believes that he is superior and all this is simply a waste of his time, then he is likely to have a much harder time, than a person who has the paperwork in order, is clean, neat, tidy, polite and pleasant. If you can make their life easy for them, they will make your annual extension easy for you. Beware of <deleted> them off as they can seriously affect your life in Thailand, to the extent of refusing your extension and kicking you out of the country. I have been dealing with IO in Suan Plhu, in the early days to Mae Sot, Nakhon Sawan and Kamphaeng Phet since 2009, and the majority of the men and women working there I have always found to be fair and reasonable.

It happened to me on a flight to Caracas, Venezuela. We were all seated and the crew did a head count and then a second and a third. At this point were were told to disembark back to the departure lounge and show passports and boarding cards. The "extra" passenger was found and detained by airport security at Heathrow, but we stayed in the lounge for a while before reboarding because the takeoff slot was lost. So, NO, it is not always TIT.